These Big Pharma connections push dangerous drugs into the public consciousness while keeping safe and inexpensive non-drug health solutions out of public awareness....
Dr. Marcia Angell, author of The Truth About the Drug Companies: How They Deceive Us and What to Do About It,(p22) stated after her tenure with The New England Journal of Medicineas Editor in Chief: "It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published."
Pharmaceutical companies even hire ghost writers to concoct favorable product reports. Then those companies pay corrupt doctors or researchers to sign those biased reports that are then published in medical journals.
There have been occasions of medical journal reports claiming successful medical drug trials, but no one tried the drugs! These were totally faked trial reports. Yet they were published in medical journals and quoted by medical practitioners who prescribed them.
The AMA (American Medical Society) is not the only medical society. It's the largest and most encompassing one. But there are as many medical societies as medical specialists. Medical equipment and drug manufacturers infiltrate those specific specialty groups to sell their wares.
An interesting recent expose on one such group, The Heart Rhythm Society with its 5000 plus mostly cardiologist membership, received half of last year's $16 million budget from companies that make drugs and devices to treat arrhythmia.
Adding to this influence, those same companies had 12 of the 18 Heart Rythm society's board members on their payroll as consultants and lecturers. Do you see the revolving doors and dual membership conflicts of interest?
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